Today’s Headlines

8:40 AM PDT on June 28, 2019

Cities will face fines if they don't meet their housing goals (Sacramento Bee)
Google will now predict how crowded your train might be (The Verge)
BART says air compressor caused breakdown of new trainset (SF Chronicle)
LA transit is losing riders (LA Times)
How California transportation can move towards electrification (Environmental Defense Fund)
CA, Canada to work together on clean transportation (Green Car Congress)
An inspiring story of redemption via bike (Teton Gravity)
Fontana seeks federal funds for transportation improvements (Herald News)
That first California freeway? It was planned as a cycleway (Curbed)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

Streetsblog California editor Melanie Curry has been thinking about transportation, and how to improve conditions for bicyclists, ever since commuting to school by bike long before bike lanes were a thing. She was Managing Editor at the East Bay Express, editor of Access Magazine for the University of California Transportation Center, and earned her Masters in City Planning from UC Berkeley.

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